prices and energy really is the story in the commodities market today. look at the $3 slide in crude oil and a lot has to do with the demand outlook. traders are focused on what is coming out of asia. news about china's pmi services data was weak then expected, but really it's what the asian development bank had to say about emerging asian nations and the gdp growth forecast that they have for them. they rationed down their expectations for 2012 and 2013. this is supposed to be the engine of growth, the engine of demand for crude oil and for other industrial commodities. if it's not there, what's going to happen, we'll see perhaps an even further slide here in oil prices. we also got data from the u.s. energy department and that also was a bit of a surprise in terms of the supply side. but in terms of demand, continuing to see anemic demand in terms of gasoline demand, down 2.5% versus a year ago. and this is already as we're getting the slide to the winter grade of gasoline. so since that rollover, we have seen a steady slide in gasoline futures. the on